"We" by Yevgeny Zamyatin. 1920
The main issue: We as a model dystopian novel. The study of the chronotopos and story line, character description, key motif system, ways of combining social and love story conflicts. A brief study of the utopia-dystopia history. The author's commentary is actively relied upon. Cultural context: Herbert Wells, Alexander Bogdanov, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, George Orwell, Alexander Solzhenitsyn.
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